Ways to trade
Unlock opportunity in the financial markets with options, spread betting, CFDs and turbo warrants. Each offers you a unique set of advantages.
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Barriers and vanilla options, spread betting, CFDs and turbo24s
Seeking short-term opportunity? Try these high-risk/high-return financial products from the world’s No.1 provider.1
No need to own assets
Options, spread bets, CFDs and turbo24s are derivatives, so you can take a position on a market’s price without owning any assets.
Take your capital further
Act on opportunity for less than traditional investment, as options, spread betting, CFDs and turbo24s are leveraged. Losses, as well as profits, are magnified.
Increase your opportunities
Unlike traditional investing, options, spread betting, CFDs and turbo24s enable you to take advantage of both falling and rising market prices.
Manage your risk
If your spread bet or CFD account balance goes negative, we’ll bring it back to zero.2 Put an absolute cap on your risk with barriers, vanilla options and turbo24s.
What’s best for me?
Options enable you to find leverage and risk that works for you, as well as trade in a range of market conditions. Spread betting profits are tax-free3, while CFDs offer direct market access (DMA), providing increased transparency useful for more advanced traders.
Options
Buy or sell an underlying asset at a predefined price and date.
Key benefit: choose the amount of leverage you want
Trade on timeframes to suit you, with daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly markets
Choose your total risk (except when selling vanilla options)
Barrier option prices move one-for-one with the underlying, vanilla prices sensitive to a range of factors4
Spread betting
Bet on the future change in price of a financial market.
- Key benefit: no capital gains tax on profits3
- No commission, just our spread
- Never stay below zero with negative balance protection2
No stamp duty3
CFDs
Trade on the difference between the opening and closing price of a market.
Key benefit: DMA on shares and forex5
Offset losses against profits as tax deduction
- Never stay below zero with negative balance protection2
No stamp duty3
Turbo24s
Trade the world’s first 24-hour listed turbo warrants, commission free.
Key benefit: trade 24 hours a day, five days a week
Trade with other market participants to get a better price
- Zero commission payable
What markets can I trade?
Forex trading
Trade forex using options, spread bets, CFDs and turbo24s to get access to our wide range of major, minor and exotic currency pairs, through powerful platforms.
Competitive spreads
More 24-hour markets than anywhere else
Trade on the move with apps developed specifically for your device
Other markets
Low spreads. 17,000 markets, exclusive 24/7 opportunities.6
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1 Based on revenue excluding FX (published half-yearly financial statements, June 2019).
2
Negative balance protection applies to trading-related debt only, and is not available to professional traders.
3 Tax laws are subject to change and depend on individual circumstances. Tax law may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.
4
This is not the case when the knock-out premium changes. If the knock-out premium changes, the price of the barrier option will move by the amount the premium changes.
5 To trade with Forex DMA, you’ll need to qualify for an IG professional account.
6 24/7 excludes the hours from 10pm Friday to 8am Saturday (UK time), and 20 minutes just before the weekday market opens on Sunday night.
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Options and turbo warrants are complex financial instruments. Trading these financial instruments involves the high risk of losing money rapidly.
Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 74% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you understand how spread bets and CFDs work, and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
Professional clients can lose more than they deposit.
CFD, spread betting, options and turbo warrants accounts are provided by IG Europe GmbH. IG Europe GmbH (a company incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany and registered in the Frankfurt Trade Register under number HRB 115624 with registered office at Westhafenplatz 1, 60327 Frankfurt, Germany). IG Europe GmbH (Register number 148759) is authorised and regulated by the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht and Deutsche Bundesbank.
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